Elevate Growth 2025 will still offer high quality support covering of the following:

Expert guidance: access valuable insights from our specialist consultants who are experts in scaling up businesses across a broad range of sectors. The team of experts will help your business to deliver growth, providing strategic expertise that enables your business to not just function but thrive.

One-to-one business coaching: Your business will receive specialist support tailored to your aspirations and business growth potential, whether it’s increasing revenue streams or targeting new markets, the specialists will work with you to identify the way forward and the business systems and processes required to achieve it. 

Peer support: Grow and learn through shared experiences by exploring key business challenges with like-minded business leader’s, facilitated by our experts.

An implementable Growth Plan: You will create an effective growth plan with clear actions covering key areas to help achieve your growth potential.

Our Grants Team will be open for grant applications during May 2025. Grant funding may be applied for independently and is not linked to the consultancy programme.

To receive support through the programme, your business must:

• be a SME*
• be registered to an address in Worcestershire
• be trading for at least 3 years
• have at least 3 employees
• be below the Subsidy Control threshold of £315,000 over the previous 3 years, including the value of the support received

*The definition of an SME eligible for grant funding is as follows:

• has fewer than 250 employees;
• has either (a) an annual turnover not exceeding €50 million or (b) an annual balance sheet total not exceeding €43 million
• 25% or more of the capital or the voting rights are not owned by one enterprise, or jointly by several enterprises falling outside this definition of an SME
• does not own more than 25% of the capital or voting rights in an enterprise falling outside of this definition of SME

Excluded sectors not eligible for support include:

• Primary agriculture
• Schools
• Public sector funded organisations

The programme will cover:

• benchmarking - against current sales processes and models, revenue, profitability, challenges and use of multi-faceted diagnostic tools
• innovation - explore growth ideas and options
• finance - current/forecast, propensity to grow, revenue and investment plans
• management structure and teams - are the right people doing the right jobs with the right skills
• systems - marketing, client interactions, has anything shifted and does it need to change
• sales - how are current clients faring, is our offer still unique, opportunities in new vertical markets
• sustainability - what must we have in place to sustain any future challenges

To express your interest in this programme, please contact: elevateworcs@worcestershire.gov.uk

This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Worcestershire County Council.

The programme is managed and delivered by Worcestershire County Council on behalf of Bromsgrove District Council, Malvern Hills District Council, Redditch Borough Council, Worcester City Council, Wychavon District Council and Wyre Forest District Council.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit GOV.UK - UK Shared Prosperity Fund Prospectus